Slow Horses season 5 returns with Roddy Ho in a new London crisis

Apple TV’s acclaimed spy drama Slow Horses returned this week with its fifth season, plunging Gary Oldman’s curmudgeonly Jackson Lamb and the Slough House misfits into a new London crisis that begins with a mass shooting and centers on suspicions around resident techie Roddy Ho. Apple TV lists the season premiere as available Wednesday, September 24 on the streamer, with the six-episode season adapted from Mick Herron’s novel London Rules and streaming weekly thereafter, though some outlets reported different regional release times and episode drops.

Season five opens in a sleepy London suburb where a lone gunman triggers panic as a mayoral election looms. The Slough House team soon finds itself investigating a string of bizarre incidents that lead colleagues to suspect Roddy’s glamorous new girlfriend may be a honeytrap aimed at harvesting classified intelligence. The core cast returns, including Oldman, Jack Lowden as River Cartwright and Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Taverner, alongside Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and new recurring players such as Nick Mohammed as Mayor Zafar Jaffrey.

Apple TV’s timing details indicate the first episode, titled...